MAIL NOTICES.
Monday, March 15. Northern Ports of New Zealand, per Ladybird, at 4,20 p.m. The next mail for the United Kingdom via San Francisco, will close at Timaru on Saturday, March 27, and will be due in London on May 11, 1880. It is hereby notified for public information that, concurrently with the establishment of the new fortnightly mail service between Europe and Australia via Brindisi and Colombo, the Imperial Government has decided to abandon the route via Southampton. 1 For the future, therefore, only a mail via Brindisi will be made up for the United Kingdom by the Suez route: The rates of postage on correspondence from New Zealand for the United Kingdom Via Brindisi will remain as at present, viz:— Letters 8d per half-ounce; books, 2d per ounce; newspapers, 2d each 4-ounce paper, and Id for each additional 4-ounces. W. W. Beswick, Acting Chief Postmaster. Chief Post Office, Timaru, March 4, 1880.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2180, 13 March 1880, Page 2
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155MAIL NOTICES. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2180, 13 March 1880, Page 2
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